We at Rally-Raid Products will be going to Turkey,first week September, for Transanatolia Rally Raid 2013, 4th edition.
There will be 3 Rally-Raid Products KTM 690's, fitted with our latest EVO2 Rally kits, ridden by myself, Jeff Webster and Perry Newton (one half of the infamous "Kevin & Perry do Dakar" from Malta). Also riding a KTM 690 with our Rally-Lite kit fitted is Donna Gray (of Torque Racing) looking to repeat her win in the Ladies Class and also Alex, another ex-pat Irishman who lives in Malta.
We will have the latest Tractive Suspension rally shocks fitted, for further testing of these new products.
We will have 2 prototype rally Tripmeter/CAP Repeaters on 2 bikes for evaluation, working in conjunction with Garmin Montana GPS units.This is a first try on our EVO2 Rally set-up and we are very interested to see how they compare against our previous ICO/ERTF units.
Last final shake down will be this weekend at Thetford Forest before shipping all bikes & equipment to Turkey.

Our transport & assistance will be done by Torque Racing, who we used previously on Tuareg Rallye earlier this year.

Saturday saw our last shake down of the bikes before they are packed of to Turkey. But very excitingly it was my first test of the new Tractive rear shock.

Well chalk and cheese was the phrase for sure! I was blown away by it performance. It was smoother than a cashmere codpiece! I noticed instantly that it made my forks work better too, Bonus or what!

Watching KTMmitch in front of me also gave me the opportunity to watch the shock work and it looked as good as it felt.

The other noticeable improvement was how the back end tracked whilst accelerating out of gravely/sandy corners. It didn't snap out loosing traction but had a controllable slide. Very confidence inspiring. I look forward to using it in Turkey as i found it very hard getting the grip our of the loose corners there last year.